The device at Chinatown Coffee Co. looks like the jury-rigged still that Hawkeye and Trapper built to make moonshine in their tent on "M*A*S*H." Or perhaps like the world's largest coil condenser bong. Actually, the …

Erica is a project being worked on by engineers from the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Osaka University, the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, and Kyoto University. She was …

“Summer, Kyoto” by Hiroshi Toda (Japan/2014). Taking place somewhere in Kyoto, Mr. and Mrs. Nakamura makes scented bags for a living. One night, when the husband takes a walk alone, he finds an old man …

Of all the important cities of Japan, only two, Kyoto and Hiroshima, had not been visited in strength by B-san, or Mr. B, as the Japanese, with a mixture of respect and unhappy familiarity, called the B-29; and Mr.

Popular Science •
3 years ago

http://www.popsci.com/america-reflects-bomb-70-years-after-hiroshima

Tokyo Court: Bitcoin Not Subject to Ownership

Kurachi's comments, reported by The Japan Times, came during a lawsuit bought against bankrupt bitcoin exchange Mt Gox by an unnamed Kyoto resident. Representing himself in court, the plaintiff had demanded …

A retired professor at the state-run Kyoto University recently discovered a blueprint at the school's former Radioisotope Research lab, Japan's Sankei newspaper and other local media reported recently. The notebooks …

Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered that the historically and culturally significant city of Kyoto be stricken from the target list. (Stimson was personally familiar with Kyoto; he and his wife had spent part of their …

The Federal Employees Who Singled Out Hiroshima for Atomic Destruction

Joyce C. Stearns, a scientist representing the Air Force, named the four shortlisted targets in order of preference: Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and Kokura. They were all “large urban areas of more than three miles in …

Settsu Mine, Hyogo, south central Japan, 1878. Police inspector Fujita Goro (Eguchi Yosuke) - once a traditional samurai, called Saito Hajime, who was on the side of the shogunate in the civil war 10 years ago - raids …

filmbiz.asia •
3 years ago

http://www.filmbiz.asia/reviews/rurouni-kenshin-kyoto-inferno

Reimagining Japan’s history through the lens

Usui sought out remnants of the Showa era in rundown districts of Osaka and Kyoto, areas populated by prostitutes and the yakuza in which “we find people living lives on the edge”. “In modern Japan, people don’t …